MICHAEL L RAPOSA's scientific contributions

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Charles S. Peirce occupies a secure and significant position in the annals of American intellectual history. His impact on contemporary philosophy, logic, semiotic, literary theory and communication studies has been enormous. Nevertheless, only a handful of theologians and philosophers of religion have looked to his writings as an important resourc...

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... In keeping with a post-Socratic paradigm, the convener and facilitator of the process is model, coach, and co-investigator, rather than master manipulator, instructor or ultimate authority, and as such acts to reconfigure the role of the teacher in general. As an exemplar of C.S. Peirce's playful notions of "sporting consciousness" "interpretive musement" and "abduction" (Raposa 1989, Corrington 1992, CPI is a master play-form, embodying an open, fluid dialogical system of collaborative deliberation. Its process is emergent and self-organizing, and based on the Socratic injunction to "follow the argument where it leads." ...